sethnintendo said:
If the company goes out of business (Steam, Microsoft, etc) then how will you be able to play the games? Granted they could release a patch right before their collapse that unblocks all the DRM or whatever. Anyways, imagine a future apocalypse where you are powering your TV, video game console through a generator and there isn't any internet. How are you going to play those games if they are DRM to internet connection? Granted my scenarios have a .0001% of chance of actually happening. How about this scenario though... Your city is struck by a huge disaster (although your house remains). Internet services are down and you can't play video games. Granted you probably have more things to worry about then playing a video game. Hand helds are superior to home console systems in terms of playing after disaster! |
Even if there was a disaster in my city and everyone's net went out I bet I could STILL tether my phone! Also, I live in Southern Onatrio between Toronto and Niagara Falls. We have basically no chance of natural disasters here. We're nowhere near any fault lines so earthquakes are no-go, we're too far inland to worry about hurricanes, and we're far enough North that any tornadoes that do pop up are very small. But yeah, I guess if aliens show up and blast my city to pieces and wreck our internet service and all cell towers I will have to fall back on my 3DS lol.
I see what you're getting at, but it's really just not a realistic thing for me to worry about. The last thing I'm going to be worried about in any disaster or major power/net outage is video games.
As for companies like MS or Steam going out of business I would hope, and I suspect that they would release a patch to remove all DRM before they shut their doors. Only time will tell I suppose.







